Summary Review: highlights from November 01 – 06

NEWS

Hollywood director and screenwriter, Betty Kaplan at the XI World Summit of the Telenovela and Fiction Series Industry in Puerto Rico

Betty Kaplan is an American film director born in New York City and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She directed the film Dona Barbara, Almost a Woman and Of Love and Shadows. Kaplan currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Often writes and produces its own projects...read more

INTERVIEW

The end of prime time?

Mr. Don rating is dying. The alarming decrease traditional TV consumers is that the viewer has new and different requirements that few are knowing how to understand and satisfy. The truth is that OTT (over the top) services account for just over…read more

INTERVIEW

“There in no direct competition in México for channel 2”, Jorge Eduardo Murguía, Televisa production VP

After the decline in audience that has registered the last bar of telenovelas, which lies between 15 and 18 rating points, Televisa is premiering with a new bar of 4 stories with the intention to re-level the audience that last year was above 20 points. TVMAS spoke with Jorge Eduardo Murguia, VP of Grupo Televisa production, about this…read more

NEWS

The Indian and Spanish film industries will stimulate shooting in both countries and the organization of festivals

The Film and Television Producers Guild of India has signed a two-year agreement with the India House Foundation, based in Valladolid, with which it pursues closer ties between the film industries…read more

NEWS

The convergence of innovation and technology in the Television Industry in Jerusalem

Keshet Media Group announced that Bob Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, will give a lecture on INTV November 4 and 5 in Jerusalem about the convergence of innovation and technology in the television industry, organized by…read more

NEWS

Turner and Dish México sign multiyear distribution agreement

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Latin America, Inc. announced the agreement with Dish Mexico for distribution of its channels in Mexico. Under this new partnership, the Turner channels will be available for the 2.5 million Dish subscribers, such as..read more

FILM

Syfy premieres Sharknado: Tornado de Tiburones in Latin America

Syfy’s movie, the pay channel from Universal Networks International, scored an audience of more than 5 million viewers, in addition to mastering social media during its recent U.S. release. Now the signal opens the film in Latin America next…read more

-The American channel Starz has launched a new drama series, WonderWorld, starring Owen Wilson, which will be set in the 80s and will deal with two FBI agents infiltrated in the dark webs of the porn industry.

-Hollywood director and screenwriter, Betty Kaplan at the XI World Summit of the Telenovela and Fiction Series Industry in Puerto Rico.

-Telemundo Internacional production presents the new Direct TV Latin America and recorded in the city of Miami, "Un loco en América", led by spanis journalist Jesus Quintero and produced by Imagina US.